disattract
disattract verb: synonym of repel.
Verb
disattract (third-person singular simple present disattracts, present participle disattracting, simple past and past participle disattracted)
- Synonym of repel.
- Man’s spirit, severing, draws after it a third of finite spirits; his soul disparting, leads astray a third of wandering souls; his body, disuniting, attracts a third of disattracting bodies.1844 September 1, “Protheic Scripture”, in The New Age, Concordium Gazette, and Temperance Advocate, volume I, number 21, London: […] W. Strange, […], published 1845, page 279
- Some “Socialists” say a “millionaire or a preacher joining the party attracts the attention of other people who might otherwise be hostile to it.” Socialism if it is anything is a revolutionary force and not a side-show “attraction” and people that can be attracted by little tin gods can also be...1909 February, Fred L. Schwartz, “[News & Views] A Proletarian Movement”, in The International Socialist Review: A Monthly Journal of International Socialist Thought, volume IX, number 8, Chicago...
- Synonyms:
- repel
Examples of disattract in a sentence
- Further, the specification of one target group in one target area inevitably disattracts other potentially needful groups.1968 January–February, Edward J. O’Donnell, “A place to go and a place to be from…: The Neighborhood Service Center”, in Ruth C. Galaid...
- You can say, “Well, I am attracted to the confirming evidence and disattracted to the disconfirming evidence.”1976 June 8–9, John Searle, “Mind and Language”, in W. J[ames] Megaw, editor, Prospects for Man: Communication, Toronto, Ont.: The Centre...
- The rural income has been increased and the urbanization side-effects such as population, layoff, inflation, slum, disattract rural people.1977, Sung Hoon Kim, Don Min Kim, “Korea”, in Douglas Ensminger, editor, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, New Delhi: Tata...
- Of course, moving that store to attract that kind of business disattracts business from the local community.1988 February 25, Sam[my] L[awrence] Cureatz, quotee, Annual Report, Provincial Auditor, 1986-87: Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Toronto...
Synonyms of disattract
Forms of disattract
| third-person singular present | disattracts |
|---|---|
| present participle | disattracting |
| past participle | disattracted |
| past | disattracted |
Origin of disattract
From dis- + attract.
Questions about disattract
- What does disattract mean?
- Disattract means synonym of repel.
- How do you use disattract in a sentence?
- Further, the specification of one target group in one target area inevitably disattracts other potentially needful groups.
- What part of speech is disattract?
- Disattract is a verb.
- What is the past tense of disattract?
- The past tense of disattract is disattracted.
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